.TH "GEANY" "1" "February 25, 2007" "@PACKAGE@ @VERSION@" ""
.SH "NAME"
Geany \(em a small and lightweight IDE
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.PP
\fBgeany\fR [\fBoption\fP]  [\fBfiles ...\fP]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.PP
Geany is a small and fast editor with basic features of an integrated development environment.
.PP
Some of its features: syntax highlighting, code completion, code folding, symbol/tag lists and
many supported filetypes like C(++), Java, PHP, HTML, DocBook, Perl and more.
.PP
Homepage: http://geany.uvena.de
.SH "OPTIONS"
.IP "\fB-c\fP           \fB\-\-config\fP         " 10
Use an alternate configuration directory. Default configuration directory is
~/.geany/ and there resides geany.conf and some template files.
.IP "\fB-d\fP           \fB\-\-debug\fP         " 10
Runs Geany in debug mode, which means being verbose and printing lots of information.
.IP "\fB-i\fP           \fB\-\-new-instance\fP         " 10
Don't open files in a running instance, force opening a new instance.
Only available if Geany was compiled with support for Sockets.
.IP "\fB-l\fP           \fB\-\-line\fP         " 10
Set initial line number for the first opened file.
.IP "\fB-m\fP           \fB\-\-no-msgwin\fP         " 10
Don't show the message window. Use this option if you don't need compiler messages
or VTE support.
.IP "\fB-n\fP           \fB\-\-no-ctags\fP         " 10
Don't load auto completion and call tip data. Use this option, if you don't want to use them.
For more information please see documentation.
.IP "\fB-s\fP           \fB\-\-no-session\fP         " 10
Don't load the previous session's files
.IP "\fB-t\fP           \fB\-\-no-terminal\fP         " 10
Don't load terminal support. Use this option, if you don't want to load the virtual terminal
emulator widget at startup. If you don't have libvte.so.4 installed, then terminal-support is
automatically disabled. Only available if Geany was compiled with support for VTE.
.IP "\fB\fP           \fB\-\-vte-lib\fP         " 10
Specify explicitly the path including filename or only the filename to the VTE library, e.g.
/usr/lib/libvte.so or libvte.so. This option is only needed, when the autodetection doesn't
work. Only available if Geany was compiled with support for VTE.
.IP "\fB-v\fP           \fB\-\-version\fP         " 10
Show version information and exit.
.IP "\fB-?\fP           \fB\-\-help\fP         " 10
Show help information and exit.
.PP
Geany supports all generic GTK options, a list is available on the help screen.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.PP
This manual page was written by Enrico Troeger <enrico.troeger@uvena.de>. Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under
the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any
later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
.PP
The complete text of the GNU General Public License can be found in @GEANY_DATA_DIR@/GPL-2.
